Joan Waltemath 131 Bowery 4
th
www.joanwaltemath.net
Born 1953 Nebraska
Lives and works in New York
fl.
New York, NY 10002
[email protected]
917 620 0993
Hunter College, CUNY, M.F.A., 1993
R.I. School of Design, B.F.A., 1976
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015
2013
2011
2009
2007
2006
2005
2003
2002
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“one does not negate the other”, Peter Hionas Gallery, NY
“in the absence of grief”, Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
“Latencies”, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
“the dinwoodies, Schema Projects, Bushwick, NY
“Contingencies”, Peregrinprogram, Chicago, IL
“passages/passagen” Art-on, Bonn, Germany
"Torso/Roots", Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
"Infinity: Notes on the Sublime" with C. Wulffen, Galerie Niklas
von Bartha, London
"Two & Three", Victoria Munroe Gallery, Boston, MA
"White Skins", White-Out Studio, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
"The invisible web of Iktomie iyokipi", Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
"This isn’t Kansas…". with Jim Clark, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
"corporeal musings", Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Bruxelles, Belgium
"Finis Vacui" Stark Gallery, New York, NY
The Drawing Room at the Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Resolute Void," S. Moody Gallery, University of Alabama
"Constellation," Petra Bungert Projects, New York, NY
"Introductions," New Gallery, Houston, TX
"Zwischenzeit," Stark Gallery, New York, NY
"Recent Paintings," Stark Gallery, New York, NY
"Paintings," Stark Gallery, New York, NY
"Haptic Solids," Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York, NY
"Cross References," Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY
Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY
No se No, New York, NY
"Science is the Tree of Death," Shuttle Theatre, New York, NY
Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY
"space window*", List Gallery, Brown University, RI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
Expanded Field Four New York Painters, Bartha Contemporary London, “oysters
with lemon” Ventana244, Brooklyn,NY, 100 women artists, LIU, Brooklyn, NY
2014 “un·boun·ded”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, “between levels”, Hionas
Gallery NY, This Red Door, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY, “New York
Woman”, curated by B. Mac Adam at G Gallery, Houston, TX
2013 Come Together Sandy: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Brooklyn, NY, “Paper Goods”,
Susan Eley Fine Art, NY, NY, “Works on Paper”, This Red Door at Reh-Kunst, Berlin,
Germany, “Self-similarity in Math, Nature and Art”, Hewitt Gallery, Marymount
Manhattan College, NY , “Works on Paper”, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY, “Banned
in D.C.”, curated by Mark Dagley, Ventana244, Brooklyn NY, “Invisible Collector”, Das
Kleine Museum, Kultur auf der Peunt, Weissenstadt, Germany, >>Betreff 28<<,
Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
2012 Works on paper, von Bartha Contemporary, London, “Forays”, The Red Door,
Galapagos, Brooklyn NY
2011 “Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper”, Katonah Museum of Art,
Katonah, NY, It’s all Good (Apocalypse Now) Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY, “The Artist as
Collector: Olivier Mosset”, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AAA 75th
Anniversary Exhibition, OK Harris, NY , Portability and Network, Spaces, Cleveland,
OH
2010 The Machine Eats, Frederico Sève Gallery NY, Winter Salon B Ressle at Elga
Wimmer Gallery, NY
2009 “Crossing Borders”, Björn Ressle Gallery, NY, L Francis, M Kahn, D Voisine, J
Waltemath, Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY “The Alogrithms of Art”, S. New
Hampshire University, NH, ‘Very Small works’, Gallery Joe, Phil., ‘The Aesthetics of
Math’, The Philocetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination, NY,
‘Portrait of the artist as a biker,’ Le Magasin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Grenoble,
France, ‘uncensored inquires’, 210 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Drawing itself” Brattleboro
Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2008 "Dimensions in Nature: New Acquisitions 2006-8", San Diego Museum of Art,
AAArtists, Painting Center, NY, "Tipping the Balance", The Drawing Room, East
Hampton, NY, “Winter Salon”, Björn Ressle Gallery, NY, "A Roller Coaster in the
Dark", Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY
2007 "The Orpheus Selection", P.S.1, Queens, NY, Victoria Munroe Gallery, Boston,
MA, "Continuum", St. Peter's College, NJ
2006 "Take off", Hebel 121, Basel, Switzerland, "Big", MONA, University of Nebraska,
Kearney NE, "Gridlock", Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA, The Drawing Room, East
Hampton, NY, "The Square", The 'temporary Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2005 "Paint it in Black”, curated by Phong Bui, Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York,
NY, "Drawing Salon”, Victoria Munroe Gallery, Boston, MA, "Optical Simulations",
Yellowbird Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2004 "Small Epiphanies”, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA, Galerie Niklas von
Bartha, London, “Small Works”, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2003 "The Incredible Lightness of Being", Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
curated by Phong Bui, “Resonance”, The Work Space, NY, NY "The Rhythm of
Structure", Firehouse 5 Gallery, NY, "Contemporary Art and the Mathematical
Instinct", Tweed Museum, U of Minnesota, Duluth, “Thinking in Line”, University
Galleries, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, “In Time”, Ben Janssen's Oriental Art,
London, England
2002 "2 Step", CCNOA, Bruxelles, Belgium, "Math Art – Art Math", Selby Gallery,
Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
2001 "Immanence” Hunter College, CUNY, NY, "Patient Process" Grinnell College,
Grinnell, IA, Steven Vail Galleries, Des Moines, IA, W.O.P., PS, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, “Fifteen years of Painting”, Stark Gallery, NYC, "Drawing", Victoria
Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA
2000 "Art on Paper " Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, "Deep
Field Painting", Hunter College, CUNY, NY, "Painting Abstraction" NY Studio
School, NY, "1/2000" Collège Jacques-Cartier, Chauny, France, "Significant Pursuits:
Paint and Geometry", Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY
1999 "Die Kunst der Linie”, Oberösterreich Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria, "Women
and Geometric Abstraction," Pratt Institute, NY, "Transparent Façade", Otis College
of Art and Design, Santa Monica, CA
1998 "Large-scale Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky", The Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, “Zeichnung", Michael Sturm Gallery,
Stuttgart, BRD
1997 "Drawing is another kind of language", Harvard U Art Museums & other locations
abroad, "Turning the Corner: Abstraction at the end of the 20th Century", Hunter
College, CUNY, "Abstraction Index", Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, Ny
1996 "Troi collections d’artistes" Musee de Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland,
"Champions of Modernism", Castle Gallery, New Rochelle College, NY
1995 "Badur, Hyde, Waltemath" Thatcher Projects at Condeso/Lawler Gallery
1994 "Constructed in 2 and 3 dimensions: 1921-1994" Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
1993
"Painting as Paradigm" Stark Gallery, NY "Recent Acquisitions" Arthur Sackler
Gallery, Harvard U. Art Museums, MA
1991
"Drawing Invitational" Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1990 "Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure" Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY, "Drawing" Althea
Viafora Gallery, "Cruciform" Stark Gallery, NY, "Information" Terrain Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Public Commissions
2000-02 Neubau St. Canisius, church façade, Büttner, Braun, Neumann, Berlin,
Germany
1987
Howco Investment Corp., Metropark, NJ
Grants and Awards
2014
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
Art Farm, NE
Creative Capital Award
Art Farm, NE
Gastatelier, Insel Hombroich, Germany
Art Farm, NE
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NY
2008
2008
2007
2007
2007
2006
2006
2005
2003
2003
1999
1992
Gifford Fellowship, Bemis Center, NE
Jentel Foundation, Sheridan, WY
Artist's Fellowship, NY
American Academy of Arts and Letters Fund, NY
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, NE
The Edward Albee Foundation, NY
Change, Inc.
Jentel Foundation, Sheridan, WY
BRA Architecture Award City of Berlin Citation for St. Canisius Kirche
The Edward Albee Foundation, NY
USIS Grant, Bruxelles, Belgium
Travel Grant, Hunter College, CUNY, NY
Selected Public Collections
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Hood Museum, Dartmouth, NH
S. Moody Gallery, Univ. of Alabama, AL
Krannert Art Museum, Univ. of Illinois
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Univ. of N. Carolina
Museum of Nebraska Art, Univ. of NE, Kearney
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
Blanton Museum of Art, Univ. of Texas, Austin
Brunswick Corporation, IL
Chase Manhattan Bank, NY
Progressive Corporation, OH
Sears Merchandise Inc., IL
Fondation Leschot, Bern, Switzerland
Muse de Beaux Arts, La chaux de Fonds, Switzerland
Bibliography / Reviews
Architecture Plus, Vol. 15, "USA: A New Kind of White," p. 90. Sept 2009
Brennan, Michael. Painters Journal, artnet.com, September 27, 2000 & October 29, 1999
Cohen, David, artcritical.com, L Francis, M Kahn, D Voisine, J Waltemath at Janet
Kurnatowski Gallery, April 2009
Downtown, no. 55, p 28, New York, NY, June 17, 1987
Drawing, The International Review of The Drawing Society, Vol. XIX, No.3, p 98,
Winter- Spring 1998
Ermen, Reinhard, “Der Process hat mich interessiert”, Der Sammler Werner Kramarsky
im Gespräch mit R Ermen, Kunstforum, ill. pg. 177 April-Mai 2009
Fallon, Roberta. Math Works, The A-List in the Philadelphia Weekly, November 21,
2001
Fyfe, Joe, review of “…this isn’t Kansas”, Art In America, March 2003
Frank, Peter. Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, Oct. 2-8, 1998 & Feb.1-7, 2002
Galgiani, Allison, Turn and Face the Strange: 6 Art Shows for the Changin’ Season,
Bushwick Daily, 9.19.13
Gaskell, Ivan. "Contemporary Art and the Department of Paintings and Sculpture,"
Harvard University Art Museums Review, pg. 3, Cambridge, MA, Spring 1993
Goodman, Wendy. "Space Shifters", NY Magazine, Feb. 5, 2007, pp 54-5
Handy, Ellen. Review, Arts Magazine, Vol. 66, No. 8 p 90, New York, NY April 1992
Jones, Mary. Post Impressions “Everything Counts: Joan Waltemath” Bomblog
BOMBSITE.com
Sept. 28, 2010
Karmel, Pepe. Art in Review, The New York Times, Vol. CXLV, No. 50, 220, p C27,
October 20, 1995
Knight, Christopher. "Light and Space…," review LA Times, Sept. 16, 1999. Pp 52, 55, 56.
Levin, Kim. "Art in Brief," The Village Voice, pg. 79, New York, NY, May 10, 1994
MacAdam, Barbara. "The New Abstraction" in Artnews, April 2007
Mahoney, Robert. Review, Arts Magazine, vol. 63, No.9, pg. 108, New York, NY, May
1989
Mahoney, Robert. "The Harmony of the Pentagon in the Paintings of Joan Waltemath,"
Apex, Vol.1, No.4, pp 30-33, Cologne, West Germany, 1988
McQuaid, Cate. "Galleries", The Boston Globe July 8, 2005
Mullarkey, Maureen. "Paint it Black", The New York Sun, pg. 16, July 21, 2005
Naves, Mario. "Currently Hanging" The New York Observer, August 1, 2005
Neil, Jonathan T.D., "Tales from the City: New York" in Art Review Issue 14, pg. 42,
August 2007
Pfeifer, Tadeus, "Rechteckig verschüsselt, Joan Waltemath bei von Bartha" BAZ, pg.
24,Feb. 1, 2007
Raynor, Vivien. More Fuel for the Debate on Abstraction, New York Times, p 20wc,
Feb. 18, 1996
Saxon, Erik. Interview, Appearances, No.16, pp 42-43, Spring 1990
Simpson, Bennet. Review of "Large Scale Drawings," Aldrich Museum in Art on Paper,
Sept. 1998
Smith, Roberta. "Group Show as Crystal Ball," The New York Times, p C23, July 6, 1990
Smith, Roberta. Art in Review, New York Times, (Vol. CXLV, No. 50, 451) p C26, July
7, 1996
Temin, Christine. Drawing their own conclusions, The Boston Globe, Living/Arts, p F1,
4, Jan. 21, 1998
Weidel, Barbara. Letter from Berlin. Artnet.com, April 5, 1999
Westfall, Stephen. Review, Art in America, p 108, New York, NY, July 1992
Zimmer, William. Matters of Scale…The New York Times, Sunday March 8, 1998
Zschau, Mechthild. Review of…die Lebendigen und die Toten…, on Texte und ZeichenDas Literaturjournal, NDR Channel, Germany, June 1, 1993
Online reviews and information
Artsdaily
http://artdaily.com/news/66374/Kleines-Museum-in-Germany-transformed-into-thehome-of-an-imaginary-art-collector
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=38031#.UpONoBb3Dog
Butler, Sharon, http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2015/03/joan-waltemath-sew.html
http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2013/10/waltemaths-powerful-dinwoody-drawings.html
http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2013/04/quick-study-some-shows-few.html
http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2012/12/umarmung-or-marshas-two-ways-joan.html
Creative Capital site http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/732
Heinz, Michelle. Joan Waltemath: Contingencies, On Verge Alternative Art Criticism
http://www.on-verge.org/reviews/joan-waltemath-contingencies/
Rooney, Kara , http://www.brooklynrail.org/2013/10/artseen/joan-waltemath-the-dinwoodies2005-8-graphite-drawings-on-mylar
Ryan, AV, http://www.on-verge.org/reviews/joan-waltemath-the-dinwoodies-at-schemaprojects-brooklyn/
Statkun, Jomar http://vimeo.com/55961922
Sundberg, K 2015
https://www.artsy.net/post/editorial-proportionality-and-the-essential-experience-of-art
Catalogues / Books
A Decade of Collecting, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, pg. 93.
2000
Art on Paper, exhibition catalog, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of N.C. at Gr.,
2000
Blast Art Benefit, exhibition catalog, X-Art Foundation, pg. 39, New York, NY 1991
Blomster til Veija, exhibition catalog, Veija Museum, Denmark, 1984
“Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1,” exhibition catalog, Skira 2014
Champions of Modernism, exhibition catalog, pp. 17, 18, 22, Portico New York, Inc.,
1996
Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, exhibition catalog, Tweed Museum, U
of MN, 2004
Deep Field Painting, exhibition catalog, pp. Hunter College, CUNY, NY 1999
Die Kunst der Linie, Möglichkeiten des Graphischen, exhibition catalogue, pp. 128-9,
Landesgalerie Oberösterreich, Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria. 1999
Immanence, exhibition catalog, Hunter College, CUNY, NY 2001
In Time, exhibition catalog, Ben Janssen's Oriental Art, pg. 14,15, 26, 27 London, UK,
2003
Joan Waltemath: New Drawings, Drawing Center exhibition brochure essay by Carter
Ratcliff. 1998
Ocean Earth, 1990 bis heute, hrsg. Peter Weibel, pp. V, VIII, 14, 34, 50, 51, 58,
182,186,215, 217, 237, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria,
1994
Paper Goods, exhibition catalog, Susan Eley Fine Arts, NYC, 2013
Patient Process, exhibition catalog, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, IA, 2001
Large Scale Drawings from the Collection of W. Kramarsky, exhibition catalog, Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1998
Drawing is another kind of language…, exhibition catalog, pp 216-217, text by Pamela Lee,
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 1997
Meller-Marcovicz, Digne, …die Lebendigen und die Toten…, pp. 358 and back cover,
Ritter Kagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria, 1992
Space Window*, exhibition catalog, Brown Univ. & RI School of Design, Providence, RI,
1977
Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure, exhibition catalog, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY, NY. 1990
Thinking in Line, A Survey of Contemporary Drawing, exhibition catalog, University
Galleries, University of Florida, 2003
Turning the Corner: Abstraction at the End of the Twentieth Century, exhibition
catalog, pp 30-31, Hunter College of the City of NY, NY 1997
Selected Published Writings
Waltemath, Joan. “Alan Uglow’s Kinesis” in Alan Uglow, exhibition catalogue, Museum
Haus Esters, ed. Martin Hentschel, Krefeld, Germany, 2010, pg. 99 - 101,
Waltemath, Joan. Appearances, No. 11, pg. 64, Fall 1984
Waltemath, Joan. "Babel, babble…" Guggenheim public, Venice, Italy, March 2000
Waltemath, Joan "The Bourdon Gauge", exhibition catalogue, published by The Fine
Arts Society, London, UK, 2006
Waltemath, Joan. “crossing the line/undoing the eye/I: a reflection on category” in
exhibition catalog for “un-bound-ed”, Root Division, San Francisco, 2014
Waltemath, Joan. "Dialogue," Blast, Vol.1, No.1, New York, NY, November 1991
Waltemath, Joan. "Excerpts from a letter to a friend," Splash, LUX Section, New York,
NY, Feb. 1989
Waltemath, Joan. "Excerpts from a letter to a friend, May 18,1996", Innerscapes, an
Anthology of Artists’ Writing, ed. Maurizio Pellegrin, Contemporanea, Trieste
1998, pg. 309-310.
Waltemath, Joan. "The Endless End of Painting" in On Edge, American Abstract Artists
Journal, Number 5, Fall 2006, pp. 54-58
Waltemath, Joan, "Falling Light", James Howell exhibition catalogue published by Niklas
von Bartha, London, UK 2004
Waltemath, Joan, Mercurial Nature, on C von Heyl, Parkett vol.89, 2011, pp.36 -48
Waltemath, Joan. "Site Sight Surface, Sediment Resonance Desire," After the Fall:
Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, Vol. II, pp 40-51, Newhouse Center for
Contemporary Art, NY, 1998
Waltemath, Joan. Statement in "The Question of Gender in Art," Tema Celeste, p 59,
Winter 1993
Academic Appointments, Lectures, and Panels
2010-
Director of the Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of
Art, MD
2001-10 Assistant Professor Adjunct, I.S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper
Union, NY
2008 -9 Lecturer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2002-04 Instructor, School of Art, Cooper Union, NY
2000-04 Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1997-01
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Visiting Lecturer, I. S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, NY,
Review Panel, artcritical.com, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Review Panel, artcritical.com, at the National Academy of Design & PA
Academy of Fine Arts, Phil., PA, Joan Waltemath in conversation with Kara L.
Rooney on the work of Joseph Beuys, Rooster Gallery, NY
“Delineating Mystery: James Siena and Joan Waltemath in Conversation with
Brett Littman”, Bard Grad Center, NY, Critical Inversions: a conversation with
Ken Johnson, Red Door Kunsthalle Galapagos, moderator
Review Panel, artcritical.com at the National Academy of Design, NY
Visiting artist Michigan State University, Lansing MI
New York Studio Artist’s Lecture Series,
panelist “Does the News influence what is New in Art?”, Po Kim Foundation, NY
Review Panel, artcritical.com at the National Academy of Design
panelist artcritical.com at the National Academy of Design,
Visiting Artist, Cleveland Art Institute, Cleveland,
Visiting Critic, Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Design, Phil.
panelist artcritical.com at the National Academy of Design,
“On Drawing”, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA,
“Jack Bush”, Studio School, NY, NY
Visiting Artist, Cleveland Art Institute, Cleveland, OH,
Review Panel. artcritical.com at The National Academy of Design,
Visiting Critic, The New School, NY
Visiting Artist, Bard University, NY
Visiting Artist, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ,
Visiting Critic, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
“Slide-Slam”, Art in General, New York
presentation of recent work at Cooper Union,
University of Alabama, American
Abstract Artists, NY,
University of Weimer, Weimer, Germany
presentation of recent work, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT,
Visiting Critic,Yale University School of Architecture
panelist, "The NEA Tapes/European Influences Symposium," Kunsthalle, NY
presentation of OECD projects in collaboration with Robert Mahoney, NYU,
"Crash Course through the History of Art," Hoosac School, Hoosic Falls, NY
participant in "The Image of Thinking," Akademie der Bildenden Kunst,
Nürmberg, Germany,
Visiting Critic, I.S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, NY
Artist Groups, Journals and Other Collaborative Work
2002-
Editor at Large, The Brooklyn Rail, archive of published articles and
interviews at www.brooklynrail.org/archive
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Contributing Editor, artcritical.com
Ethics Tv ethicstv.com
Unovis Film Group
Space Force, OECD, Ocean Earth, Inc.